Re: [RFC PATCH] Documentation: set a base URL for relative links

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Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I don't know the doc toolchain well enough to know how best to fix
> this without breaking anything.  It would be ideal if the base URL
> used was substituted and controllable via make variables.  That would
> allow packagers to make it point to the on-disk documentation and make
> git's documentation even easier to use when disconnected.

Thanks. It indeed appears that update to FC11 at k.org brought a few
issues to the documentation area.

I think we can do something like this and let distro people to decide what
URL to use.

 Documentation/Makefile |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 3f59952..abb75eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ ifdef DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP
 XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
 endif
 
+ifdef MAN_BASE_URL
+XMLTO_EXTRA += --stringparam man.base.url.for.relative.links=$(MAN_BASE_URL)
+endif
+
 # If your target system uses GNU groff, it may try to render
 # apostrophes as a "pretty" apostrophe using unicode.  This breaks
 # cut&paste, so you should set GNU_ROFF to force them to be ASCII
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